Python bytes literal has extra characters that aren't hex, but alter the value of the string

Question

I am used to the python byte literal syntax representing bytes as hex values such as b\'\\x7a\' is the hex value 0x7a. I however have run into an i

Answer 1

Byte array notation converts certain values to their textual representation:

>>> b'\x12\x41\x42'
b'\x12AB'

In this case the hex number 41 is the ASCII value for capital letter A.